Improvement in binders  platforms for harvesters



Curtis Mi'ller- PATENTED JUN 27 1871 Attachment to Reaping Machines J tj mun UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CURTIS MILLER, OF LINCOLN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND J. R.ROYER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BINDERS PLATFORMS FOR HARVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,471, dated June 27,1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, (JURTIs MILLER, of Lincoln, in the county ofLancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain Arrangementor Improvement to be attached to the ordinary Platform ofReaping-Machines, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to provide a table or platform on whichthe cut grain is lodged by the ordinary raking device onto a raisedtable over a tight bottom of a car attachment, to prevent the waste ofgrain and to facilitate the bind ing by hand; said car attachment andplatform or binders table being made adjustable so as to adapt it tovarious conditions of soil or diversity of the ordinary platforms onreapers.

The accompanying drawing will illustrate my invention, in which Figure 1is a top or plan view of the car attachment. Gr represents an ordinaryplatform attached to reaping-machines. Fig. 2 is a cross-section, shownvertically in part.

A brief explanation, with reference to the letters marked upon thedrawing, will enable any one skilled in the art to make and use myinvention.

G shows an ordinary platform. K, a metallic plate, of zinc or othermaterial, to close the joint, by overlapping the car at its hingedjunction to the car in order to yield sufficiently so as to adapt it tothe ordinary undulations of the soil and yield in turning under saidmetallic plate K. This car has adjustable side beams A, which supportthe caster-wheels w, or their equivalents; and said beams A are madeadjustable at various points between the sills s and top pieces e bymeans of headed screw-bolts or otherwise. The permanent bottom H of thecar is tight to hold any grains that may lodge in it. Over this tightbottom there is a binders table or platform, F, with open side spaces,in which the binders stand, shown in Fig. 1 by the letter H, on eachside. There is, also, a seat on each side for the accommodation of thebinders, marked D l), and a hinged raised table, E, on which the sheavesare bound with more convenience. The binders or gathering-table F hascross-pieces at each end beneath, projecting, shown at I, and also madeadjustable by screw bolts.

This car can be attached and adjusted to any of the ordinary platformson reaping-machines having a side delivery. It is light and notconnected by any machinery, being simply calculated for the comfort andconvenience of the binders, as also to collect much of the grain thatnecessarily falls out in handling and is otherwise wasted.

I am aware that various attachments to reaping-machines have been usedfor divers objects, but I am not aware that any has been used arrangedin the manner and for the purpose specified.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-- The arrangement of the wheel supports A A, when made adjust-ablebetween the sills s and the top piece 0, in combination with theadjustable binders platform F, hinged table E, on a car, attached toordinary platforms of reaping-machines, in the manner and for thepurpose specified.

CURTIS MILLER.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL NIssLY, J. R. Roma.

